When it comes to a UK city break, what comes to mind? London, Manchester, Bath, Glasgow, Edinburgh? Well, what if I said you have to add Birmingham to the mix. Yep, Brum has changed a lot over the years with a host of renovations across the city, from the Grand Central to the arty Custard Factory and the cool library, this city is far from boring. I haven’t been to Birmingham in about 8 years or so, I used to come a lot when I live in Manchester, it was the place to head for a Christmas shopping weekend for

I know I have said this before but I take a lot of pictures, and last week I went to Birmingham as a guest of the Bullring to check out Style Birmingham, and while I was out and about in the city I took some snaps with my phone. I may have been super tired as I had just got back from New York but it was so nice catching up on the train up from London with the lovely Abi Marvel. Instead of coming into Birmingham’s awful New Street station, we came into Birmingham’s Moor Street train station, and

A couple of weeks ago I told you guys about the Bullring’s plans to put on a fashion show sporting the autumn/winter trends featuring both real-life and holographic models. I have to admit I was a little worried about what this show would look like, I have been to many shopping centre fashion shows before, and a combination of poor models and styling has generally put me off for life, well my opinion has been changed after seeing this amazing show from the Bullring. Not only was I impressed with the models, with the amount of outfit changes they did I

From Friday to Wednesday it may be all about London Fashion Week, but then the fashion moves North for the Style Birmingham Live weekend and this year it is bigger than ever. Running from September 23-25, it is a great three days of fashion, shopping and beauty, which includes an amazing catwalk show hosted by George Lamb. But what I am most looking forward to is The Bullring’s amazing The Show: Redefinition. Featuring Last year’s Britain’s Next Top Model winner Tiffany Pisani, the catwalk show will be the first for a UK shopping centre as it will combine real-life and holographic models to

One of my favourite bits about my Birmingham shopping trip has to be finding this vintage store, Cow. I am not the best at rummaging for a bargain in a charity store, or even working the vintage markets, but I have heard great things from the vintage store with the bright yellow front! To be honest it didn’t take much convincing to check it out when I realised it was called Cow, as I am kinda obsessed by the four legged animals *not that there were any to be seen*. I am not sure what I expected from a vintage shop, I think in my narrow-minded ways I